NEW DELHI: Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia said that it has bagged contracts for the rollout of 4.5G networks with 110 service providers globally, according to reports.

"If you want to create a fully autonomous environment then you need 5G for the latency, but if you want to support video downloads and mundane mobile broadband services then 4.5G, 4.5G Pro and 4.9G can provide significant capabilities for that," Samih Elhage, the president of Nokia's mobile networks business was quoted as saying.

Telecom operators are increasingly looking at taking advantage of technologies like carrier aggregation to boost the performance of mobile broadband networks.

Earlier, the gear maker reportedly claimed that 4.5G Pro will operate at ten times the speed of initial 4G networks by allowing service providers to combine paired, unpaired and unlicensed spectrum in an advanced form of carrier aggregation.

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